• Fayette County school bus drivers Sherry Harris and Michael Dixon demonstrated their knowledge and skill in front of drivers from throughout Georgia at the annual State Safety Competition in Perry, Ga., last month. Dixon earned 10th-place honors. Dixon and Harris represented Fayette at the 2013 state competition where Dixon also placed 10th and Harris took first place. Drivers advance to the state competition by taking first or second place in their school system's safety contest. W hen Fayette held its competition in the spring, Harris placed first and Dixon second.
• Rising Whitewater High senior Bilal Zahir was one of 70 applicants selected, out of more than 300 who applied, to participate in the Turner Voices Youth Media Institute offered through the 21st Century Leaders Program. The institute is a weeklong, intensive program focused on leadership and media career development held the last week in June at Georgia Tech. Participants go behind the scenes at CNN and Turner Studios to see the ins and outs of how live broadcasts and taped and shows are produced. They also learn about the wide array of career opportunities available, as well as the leadership skills it takes to be successful in any business.
• Seven Future Business Leaders of America members from Sandy Creek High School qualified in the state competition and advanced to represent Georgia at the FBLA 2015 National Leadership Conference this summer in Chicago. They are Megan D'Errico, Jacob Reynolds, Ellie Klarl, Tara McAfee, Kyle Craven, Chidera Obinali, and Krystian Rojas. The hospitality team of Klarl and Reynolds placed fourth in the nation; the 3D animation team of McAfee, Craven, and Rojas landed in the finals, placing 15th in the nation. More than 8,500 high school students from throughout the nation participated in more than 55 business-related competitive events, and attending workshops to hone their business skills and expand their networks.
• For the second time this year, a Henry county high school student has won a scholarship from Delta Community Credit Union to attend a Historically Black College or University in Georgia. Janae Lyttle of McDonough received a $1,875 scholarship to Spelman College, where she will begin classes this fall. A 2015 honors graduate of Union Grove High School, Janae plans to major in biology with the goal of becoming a pediatrician. Delta Community will award a total of $7,500 to students attending HBCUs in Georgia in 2015. The scholarship program is a celebration of the credit union's 75th anniversary, and entries are accepted through the KISS 104 website. Janae is the second of four Delta Community/KISS 104 HBCU scholarship recipients. The first scholarship was awarded in March to another McDonough resident: 18-year old Adam Turner, who will attend Morehouse College this fall.
• Grant Mitchell, a student at Cambridge High School in Milton, won the bronze medal in Job Skill Demonstration Open at the annual National Leadership and Skills Conference and SkillsUSA Championships in Louisville, Ky., last month, against nearly forty competitors on the high-school level. The SkillsUSA Championships is for high-school and college-level students. More than 6,000 from every state and two territories competed in 100 contests in technical, skilled, and service occupations. To qualify for the national competition, the students competed in local and state contests, and state gold medal winners advanced to the national SkillsUSA Championships.
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